Daily Briefing, Aug. 5

Chronicle Staff and News Services

Published 4:02 pm, Tuesday, August 4, 2015

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“Dungeons & Dragons,” the fantasy game that has been popular since the 1970s, is about to come to the big screen: Warner Bros. Pictures says it already has a script, written by David Leslie Johnson. If you want to top that, Entertainment Weekly reports that a Pez candy movie is also on the way.

Top tweet

“Google is your new resume. 35-70% of employers reject applicants based on Google searches but 29% get an offer based on them. Be the latter.”

East Bay resident Dick Bolles, author of the bible on job hunting, “What Color is Your Parachute.” In another tweet, Bolles says that a human resources person will scan your resume in just 8 seconds.

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Elon Musk's Life-or-Death Decision for Tesla's FutureCheddar TV

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Inside First Lady Melania Trump’s Daily RoutineVeuer

D’oh!

If you’re a retailer and the pay ratio between your CEO and a typical worker is unusually high, you might pay the price in more ways than one. A Harvard Business School study by Bhavya Mohan, Michael Norton and Rohit Deshpandé has found that people have poorer perceptions of companies that pay the CEOs more. “A firm with a high ratio must offer a 50 percent price discount to garner as favorable consumer impressions as a firm that charges full price but features a lower ratio,” the study says.

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